In 2002 we realized that we ended up teaching many people the same
things over and over again and wondered whether there would be an
efficient way of disseminating machine learning knowledge to a large
number of students and researchers efficiently. This is how the Machine
Learning Summer Schools were born. A large number of them have been held
in Canberra and Tübingen, born out of the fact that the ANU and the
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics were the two founding
institutions for this series.
The wonderful folks at Videolectures
have videotaped most of the recent events such that people unable to
attend the events can benefit from them nonetheless. This is supported
by the Pascal Network of Excellence of the European Union.